monkeylizard

Here's a bump and reminder. . . If you're not a PAID member of the TFA, you should be. As evidenced by this thread, we have no one working harder on our behalf than John Harris at TFA. Support him as much as you can. My membership just expired and I'm on my way to renew it now.

Sure, you can give me $45 for it. For all others, the probably-soon-to-be-obsolete "ATF Compliant" logo is free.

With near certainty, "yes". Contact your local Sheriff to know for sure: Lauderdale Co. Sheriff - Steve Sanders (635-1311) or (221-3400)

Last winter I read an article where folks were stuck in their cars on a frozen Interstate for a day or so. The gas-burners were in real trouble and people were having to walk a ways. A guy in a Tesla was A-OK. Not so much because battery > gas, but because he started his relatively short trip with a fully charged battery because he always charges it up at home. Lots of the gas cars didn't start out full. That's not to say this is always the case for all people, but always starting your day with a full "tank" is a pretty nice thing to do. The article also brought up the fumes from the gasoline cars. Our cars are not air tight and all those cars sitting still and idling for hours is a concern. all that exhaust pools around the cars. Normally it's fine because we're all moving, but in an hours/days long standstill it can be an issue. I'd like to have one as a commuter car, but not as my only car. That's true of a gas or diesel truck too. The difference is that a full gas/diesel tank has a longer range than a fully charged F-150 EV battery, and refilling is a lot more convenient and faster.

Excellent. Good info.

If you want something solid instead of a faux vent, look for a plumbing access panel. This is a smaller one but they come in various sizes. I have a finished storage room behind my media room. I added those access panels on the storage room side of the wall so I have easy access to my in-the-wall cabling connections.

I thought Form 5 was for an unserviceable item. Isn't Form 4 to transfer to another person ($200 tax required)? I'm not an NFA aficionado so I can't say for sure. I do know that you could set up a trust and transfer it to the trust (not sure if another $200 is required or not) and make her a responsible person on the trust. Then she has just as much legal access to it as you do both now and after your passing, hopefully many years from now. The other option is that after your passing she can have it removed from the register and return it to a "normal" non-NFA item by notifying the ATF. Sample letter here: https://www.nationalguntrusts.com/blogs/nfa-gun-trust-atf-information-database-blog/atf-letter-requesting-removal-of-a-sbr-sbs-title-2-status That can take a few months for them to process the request and notify her the lower has been removed from the NFA registry. Then she'd either put a longer upper on it or sell the upper and lower separately.

New in box SB15. Get it now and save $200 in taxes on your SBR! $40 in Nashville, anywhere between Bellevue and the airport. I also go to Cool Springs often enough.

I'm sure a fellow denizen will correct anything wrong here, but this is how I understand it. A trust is setup by an attorney and you transfer the property (firearms in this case) into the trust. The trust now owns them, not you. You name yourself as a trustee so you maintain the ability to sell them as you please. The main advantage is that you can name multiple trustees or "responsible persons". Any of those people can can possess (and sell) the item legally without you needing to be present. You all essentially have co-ownership. One reason to do this is to help prevent being charged in an edge-case in the law around who actually has possession of an item. Let's say you buy an NFA item in your name and put it in your safe. Let's also say your wife has the combination to your safe. She technically has possession of it the same as you and since her name isn't on the registration form, she's violating the NFA any time she's at home and you're not. It's not something I think anyone has ever been charged with, but by the letter of the law it's a problem. A trust solves that by making both of you legally able to possess the item. Every responsible person listed must submit fingerprints. Before some time in 2016, trusts didn't have to submit fingerprints and this was a major reason to use them. They also didn't require CLEO sign-off on every purchase. Individuals did. Today the CLEO requirement is gone entirely and since all responsible persons in a trust need to get fingerprinted, trusts are less useful than they used to be. Depending on your circumstances, a trust can make estate planning easier or harder. Remember that you don't own anything in the trust. The trust owns the items. The trust has trustees and it has beneficiaries. Beneficiaries don't have to submit fingerprints, but they can't take ownership of the items until all the trustees die. Then the transfer to the beneficiaries happens outside your will since the items aren't your property. This may be a pro or a con, depending on your personal finances, the value of the items in the trust, your will's beneficiaries, any co-trustees and the beneficiaries of the trust. Say you name your brother as a trustee because ya'll go shooting a lot and then there's no question about if he can have the NFA item or not. You die and he survives you. You might leave everything you have in this world to your spouse (or kids, whatever) but your brother gets sole control over everything in the trust because YOU don't own anything in the trust and neither does he. But he now controls the trust and everything in it. Maybe that's what you want. Maybe not. But it's a factor to consider when establishing a trust and naming the trustees.

I've never sold one I regret selling because I wish I still had it. I've regretted one or two because they've gone up in value so much since selling that I wish I had waited to sell. A LNIB Norinco SKS with ~50 rounds of ammo for $100 and an M44 Mosin Carbine for $200

I was replying to @tacops who said he installed PVC vent pipe for his neighbor's dryer. Not a great idea. @Snaveba I understood what you meant with the 2" as a stick for the shop vac to clean out the ceiling cavity. Good plan.

PVC's not a good choice. https://homeinspectioninsider.com/pvc-for-dryer-vent/ It's a code violation in most places that have building codes. YMMV. Rigid aluminum is the way to go.

That depends on the size of the collection. One gun becomes two, then becomes four. That's doubling each time, but hardly a hoarding problem. Collecting is what I like to think most of us do. Hoarding is an actual mental health issue. Check out the Mayo clinic's description here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hoarding-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20356056 From the link: It's not necessarily about how much stuff you have or whether you can afford it or not. It's more about that stuff having an unreasonable hold over you, preventing you from enjoying other things, negatively impacting your relationships, etc. It's not unlike an addiction to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. A severe case looks like what we've probably all seen on TV shows. Milder cases are less severe.

XDsc .40 > G26 > Kahr PM9 Double-stacks don't work well for me. Too much bulk to wear comfortably even with a good holster.

The 83 is probably a 1983 date code. SB could be Squires-Bingham (Philippines) or it could be Sellier & Bellot (Czech Republic today, Czechoslovakia in 1983) I think Squires-Bingham stamped theirs as SBMC and no date code, but I could be wrong. Red's right. We'll need pics.

Right, but I'd like to be able to look at a legislator's page and see all their votes rather than going bill-by-bill.

You and me both . . . but email sent anyway

Two is one and one is none, so . . . I don't see the problem here.

That's only true in the Urban Service district of the county. As a general guide, if the city picks up your trash you're in the Urban Service area. If you pay a private company to do it, you're in the General Service area. Shooting is fine in the General Service area, but these days a lot of that is too crowded to do it safely. But there are still undeveloped/sparsely populated areas esp. in the NW corner of the county where shooting is legal and can be done safely. I know this doesn't apply to the OP, but it may help a future reader.

That would be our illustrious mayor . . .

I was at the last "coldest game on record" Christmas or New Years 2017. 23 degrees at kickoff and that was a night game so it kept getting colder. Hopefully your 20 degrees at kickoff will end up with warmer temps by the end.

Correct, for purchases through Blue Label dealers (like GT Dist.) Not eligible for direct-from-Glock blue label. That requires active or retired LE/Mil creds, active penal-colony creds, or active LE recruit. https://us.glock.com/en/buy/blue-label-program

I'm in the same boat as KahrMan. I've never done one, but aluminum isn't exactly Valerian Steel so I'd think a Dremel with the right guide jig would do just fine.

Probably not. The ruling from the ATF I posted in your other thread is all about "engaged in the business of". But like Dustbuster said, that's a question for a lawyer. Notice that it also includes the use by an individual of the tools used by the person engaged in the business. That part of the rule stems from a CnC shop out in California that was setting up their CnC mills where a customer could come in and put their 80% lower in the machine then the customer would press the button to start the machine and out comes their completed lower. The shop was technically renting out their CnC machines, but the ATF ruling says that's close enough to manufacturing to need and FFL 07. So paying to use someone else's tools also runs afoul of the ruling. The whole 80% lower thing is sticky and getting stickier with each passing ruling. The ATF is doing whatever they can to stop them. Personally, I wouldn't touch one for someone else with a Grinch-sized 39 1/2 foot pole.

Careful on that one. AIUI, whoever does the work is manufacturing a firearm. If you're paying them, they're arguably "in the business of" manufacturing a firearm and need to be an FFL 07. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/ruling/2015-1-manufacturing-and-gunsmithing I'm not a lawyer and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so do your own research.